Table of Contents

2018 Preface

Introduction

Part One

1 A Theory for the True Self

2 The Destiny Drive

3 Off the Wall

4 The Psychoanalyst’s Celebration of the Analysand

5 The Psychoanalyst’s Multiple Function

Part Two

6 The Ghostline Personality

7 ‘Tripping’

8 The Anti-Narcissist

9 The Trauma of Incest

10 ‘Don’t Worry Your Father’

11 Historical Sets and the Conservative Process

Glossary

About the Author

Christopher Bollas is a psychoanalyst and former professor of English. His last book was Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment.

Reviews

Praise for Christopher Bollas:
"One of the two most important living theoreticians in the world of psychoanalysis."-Al Haaretz"The most influential psychoanalyst writing in English today."-The Townsend Center, University of California, Berkeley
"The most evocative psychoanalytic writer we have."-Adam Phillips


Praise for Christopher Bollas:
"One of the two most important living theoreticians in the world of psychoanalysis."-Al Haaretz"The most influential psychoanalyst writing in English today."-The Townsend Center, University of California, Berkeley
"The most evocative psychoanalytic writer we have."-Adam Phillips